Nehemiah 9:1
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
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Fasting
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1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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צוֹם
tsôwm · tsome
8 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
a fast
Strong's KJV usage: fast(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 9:1Strong's last: Joel 2:12
Open full H6685 profile →νηστεία
nēsteía · nace-ti'-ah
4 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
abstinence (from lack of food, or voluntary and religious); specially, the fast of the Day of Atonement
Strong's KJV usage: :-- fast(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 17:21Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:5
Open full G3521 profile →νῆστις
nēstis · nace'-tis
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
not eating, i.e. abstinent from food (religiously)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fasting.
Strong's first: Matthew 15:32Strong's last: Mark 8:3
Open full G3523 profile →ἄσιτος
ásitos · as'-ee-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
without (taking) food
Strong's KJV usage: :--fasting.
Strong's first: Acts 27:33Strong's last: Acts 27:33
Open full G777 profile →νηστεύω
nēsteúō · nace-tyoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
to abstain from food (religiously)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fast.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 10:30Strong's last: Acts 10:30
Open full G3522 profile →טְוָת
ṭᵉvâth · tev-awth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
hunger (as twisting)
Strong's KJV usage: fasting.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:18Strong's last: Daniel 6:18
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H6685
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
H6685
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
H6685
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
H6685
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
H6685
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
H6685
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
H2908
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
H6685
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
H6685
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
G3523
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
G3521
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
G3523
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
G3521
And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
G3522
And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
G3521
And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
G777
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
G3521
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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fasting
F'ASTING, participle present tense Abstaining from food.
F'ASTING, noun The act of abstaining from food.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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